Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
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XE4 IA B<3K, nCdEG CUES Out 10 YOU III
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quately express the long
ing desire I have to lead you into a
broader light. Christ died on the cross
to save us, and the honor He bestowed
upon woman has not been lost to her
i'm the intervening years. Almost his
last words were to a woman, and the
first greeting and first assurance of His
Divinity after the Ascension was to the
women whom He loved. Since that
time woman has risen, where ever there
has been a Christian, or Christ-like. in
fluence, from serf, slave, bearer of
physical burdens, to a respected wife
hood, All honored motherhood. and to-
day when the Christian influence ex-
tends almost over the earth when the
Christian light is brighter and more
glorious i'm its effects than ever before,
woman is exalted as she never was.
and is coming into higher existence
than man ever thought she would or
could aspire to. Victor Hugo said the
nineteenth century is woman's century,
Why is it ours if not for Christ and be-
cause of Christ? Since He has done all
for US, we should seek to establish His
Kingdom in the hearts of his people
The most effective work done for Christ.
our Savior, is through the organized
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should be against those existing infiu-
ences which stand me st opposed to
Christ and His Church.
Where IS there power so firm, so
iHdomitable, so exacting, so command
ing, SO corruptiEg, so debasing TO man
hood and character, so gigantic foe
to woman's happiness, so destructive
OF the soul, and so decided a foe to the
cause of Christ, as the liquor power?
Whiskey! whisky! the dark beverage
of He'll! 1t has stolen the plighted
lover from the trusting girlsh heart. it
has changed the devoted husband into
a haTd-hearted, Indifferent companion,
and made of the tender mother an in
fanticide. Whisky skaters the nerves,
deadens the sensibility. clouds the
brain, paralyzes the will, hardens the
heart and destroys the soul. Oh, my
sisters, you have but to look within
the limits of your own little town to
find so many men who would be kind
husbands and patient fathers but for
the demon, Drink. I knew some men
few years ago whose natures are SO
changed, that they could not be recog-
nized now except for the features which
mark the face. Why so sad change
i'm men created i'm Gods own image?
Alas, the cause is too well known!
Why is it necessary to tell you that the
Saloon is the most destroying enemy
of the home? The happy homes that
have been wrecked and ruined by
drink, and the millions of broken-heart-
ed women who are appealing for help
are countless.
The home is woman's world. Her
battle of life is fought within its walls.
Ii her home is cursed by drink; if the
Jewels of love, trust and faith are crush
ed; if the kind words from Him who
promised to cherish and protect are
turned to words of Indifference, scorn
and oftentimes blows, that home is
hell to the woman who should be the
happy queen. My sisters, you know
this is no fancied picture! You know
that such homes are all around us.
You know that women are signing and
weeping over the loss of husbands and
sons and brothers, and can not be COM
fOrted. Do you not see. my sisters,
that when you put your names to
dram-shop petition, you ask may petit
ton, which means prayer men to Ii
cense the sale of that which ruins the
home and breaks the heart? By licens-
ing the sale of intoxicants here you en-
courage the wholesale, and by encour-
aging the wholesale you encourage the
manufacture, and by aiding the manu-
facture you are indirectly responsible
for the sin and crime attending the liq-
Ior traffic. 1t is sad to see the names
young men who have the future yet
before them, whose characters are yet
to be beautified or distorted; sad to see
the names of middle-aged men who
have been surrounded by Christian in
fuences, and who have children to
prepare for eternity; sad to see the
names of old men whose locks are
snowy with age, and who have passed
beyond the summit toward the grave;
but it starts the fountain of tears, and
wrings my heart, to see the names of
women on those darkly-destined pa
pers Some of you have homes where
The dark shadow of iptemperance has
already entered; some of you are wear
ing care-worn faces, furrowed with sor-
row; and carrying troken hearts be-
cause the men you loved have been
TRANSFORMED into tyrants. And you,
bright merry girls, how can you make
such an indellible mark on your fresh
Young lives? "You who are young are
now at the sowing end of the harvest
field. Scatter only pure seed, that
when YOU reach the reaping end you
may find no tares, but bully the golden
grain" You have said, 81 want whis-
XIV to be Sold" What does it mean
tt means that drunkards alread made
shall grow more drunken. 1t means